| Show weekly news Ansi lysis paris london londott woo franco lit in weak bid to oust fascists ity ja doseph W lia J EDITORS NOT EWAn when opinions tie to in these at columns they th net y in to those of the news analyst sai lytt and ad not of th the newspaper spain germany and italy would not have aided rebel spain it if they had no aspirations in the iberian peninsula 8 nor presumably would rebel general francisco franco have accepted fascist F aid if ff lie ho did not expect to repay that favor these simple facts aro are being lg ig nored by franco france and britain who n now ow hope hop 0 to woo the rebels away from their rome berlin connections to make a peace which would save the defeated loyalist cause it Is hoped thereby to end the war immediately giving general franco a partial victory when he could coul d achieve a complete victory through 11 1 1 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE shoemaker kero chicago daily news a afew few more weeks fighting on the madrid valencia front the lik likelihood clihord of a complete loyalist surrender is evidenced by an apparent breakdown in morale coupled with internal squabbling an army of government troops till allowed owed itself to be routed out of catalonia next day loyalist president manuel azana plumped for unconditional surrender while premier juan mcgrin boasted he would continue fighting meanwhile in southeastern spain loyalist gen jose blaja was a virtual dictator in his own right ignoring both senors azana ainna and whether lie ho wanted to surrender or continue fighting was guess britain and france could hardly expect general franco to jump at a peace offer from such badly tattered opposition but they did it was reliably reported that anglo french interests were offering to supply funds lor for reconstructing spain it if franco would oust german and italian influence so anxious were the british that they sent a cruiser to darry carry rebel asnins envoy to the loyalist island of minorca where a surrender was asked and won in return for these gestures general franco offered little to the two great european democracies who refused him recognition until all loyalist hope was gone ills his promise to remove foreign troops which does not necessarily mean removal of foreign influence expected dally daily is recall of the old bourbon dynasty to throne probable ruler will be big sport loving prince jaime balme not a sufferer bleeding like so many bourbons highly grateful to the mi man who restored his throne prince jaime would be more than willing to let ge general franco rule as premier a la mussolini vatican within 18 days of a popes death the sacred college of cardinals must meet in rome to elect his successor locked in secret n clave at the vatican during late february and early march thesa princes of the roman catholic church will name a successor to the tha late pope plus XI Attest attesting hig to the futility of prediction was the last election on february 6 1922 1022 when plus only nine months a cardinal cardin a I 1 was elevated over the heads of many more favored candidates favored candidate Us this time is cardinal eugenio pacelli papal secretary r e t 0 ry of state who serves as temporary teme pope during the interim between plus death and the election of his successor Lor though he confesses a longing to lead the contemplative tive life of a monk cardinal pacelli has the excellent record of papal diplomat that qualifies him for the lob job of pope in a year like 1939 1039 only stumbling block to cardinal ls election is the growing belief that a non italian might make more headway in settling the current european turmoil though the position traditionally goes to an italian it Is recalled that in 1922 the spanish cardinal merry del vol val led early balloting great britain last january 13 the british foreign office received a mysterious ultimatum demanding withdrawal of english troops fram rom ireland within four days three days later bombs began exploding throughout the british isles and between subsequent explosions scotland yard was able to place responsibility with the illegal irish republican n army while first arrests were being ra made and special guards were assigned to tho the king and queen irish prime minister eamon do de valera found occasion to regret tho the incident far from a terrorist mr do de valera has won amazing concessions concession a for ireland by using much gentler tactics than the extremist republic can army advocates today ireland Is known as eire having become an independent state associated with the british commonwealth only tor for certain minor purposes british Is gone except for or far north ulster which Is largely english Protestant Protest antas las opposed to the irish catholicism of s southern bouthern ireland main purpose be behind hind the republican army Is british withdraw withdrawal wa I 1 from ulster mr do valera also wants this but he bel believes loves in saner tactics while soothing londona Lon dons nerves by asking laws to crush the illegal army mr do de valera probably found himself blushing with embarrassment when P T kelly an independent senator arose to regret that the ultimatum sent by tho the republican army to tho the british foreign secretary had not been sent by the irish government relief it Is paradoxical that this years administration anti antl congress should be the first to admit that federal relief Is a permanent fixture but this does not mean that the white house and capitol hill are agreed on how relief should be handled no sooner had the nation recovered from the shock of congress independence pen dence in slashing from the relief deficiency bill than relief again popped into the headlines emergency As president roo roosevelt e signed the reduced deficiency appropriation he begged congress to restore the reason in my op opinion I 1 n 1 on 8 an n emergency now exists the president said S alternatives are 1 to slash rel relievers relie lefers fers from the rolls by april I 1 or 2 to oust from to via week by week reductions from april I 1 to july 1 since each client presumably hass has dependents the president thought it was contrary to human decency to leave from to americans stranded URA the house received a bill from virginias clifton A woodrum M which would completely upset the administrations relief apple cart creating URA IURA unemployment relief administration the bills light ly camouflaged purpose Is to give congress complete voice over re lief hamstringing ham stringing the white house stipulations 1 halving the presidents 1939 40 budgetary relief relict request of 2 abolishing and creating URA which would report monthly to congress 3 providing for congressional allocation of relief funds to individual state agencies 4 giving the president a year to spend as he sees fit 5 attempting to divorce politics from relief off again on again created in 1038 Is soon to expire but secretary of the interior harold L ickes has urged creation of a permanent to prevent future de V v d SECRETARY ICKES off again on again gone again press lons says he american growth has been an lod off again on again gone again finnigan we owe it to our people to protect them from the strains and stresses of an economic system which periodically has hurtled oft off the track A program of timed or balanced public works would act like a gy gyro for proof mr air ickes pointed to allotments last june when the federal reserve index stood at 77 by october the index had risen to 07 and by november to miscellany in harrisburg pa state rep john J baker proposed a 50 baby bonus for needy mothers not to increase the population but to make sure mothers can depend on proper medical atton attention tion 0 in cleveland safety director eliot ness claimed 80 per cent of serious traffic violations are arc committed by workers business As counsel for a now new york state legislative insurance committee charles evons evans hughes rande ft a name for himself in 1900 uncovering what lie ho thought to be irregularities tho the chief hughes fear that insurance surn rice company resources were so BO largo large as to moko make conservative responsible management increasingly Increasing ty difficult the hughes hughea remedy federal supervision of insurance investments since 1000 1006 mr hughes has risen to the U S supreme court and may have changed his mind at least nothing has been done about it and the vast insurance fund has quadrupled whereas mr hughes suggested limiting now new policies to a year per company some now write a year today there ore are worth of policies in effect and insurance investments cover a surprisingly singly wide field samples government securities railroads farm mortgages and corporation securities state county and city bonds if this business was worth investigating ti 23 years ago it Is even more vulnerable today just started in washington is a 12 month probe proba by the temporary national economic committee headed by Wyo son sen joseph C OMah oncy and better known as the monopoly investigating vesti gating committee chiming in Is william 0 douglas securities and exchange commission pertinent question marks include 1 what influence insurance investments in ants exert on U S money markets banks railroads etc 2 how insurance executives are chosen 3 possibility of interlocking diorec borates between insurance firms and utilities though the monopoly committee has often reiterated that it is not hunting witches and although mr douglas maintains he only wants to bring the hughes report up to date n 4 QA A EVANS HUGHES the sins are now quadrupled there Is a good chance of new legis lution lotion providing federal regulation over all interstate insurance business this would supplement state in effect adding to their discomfort is the demand by sen burton K wheeler that insurance companies take a greater hand band in helping reorganize U S railroads the wheeler charge that present insurance company negotiations with carriers feature repeated concessions to investment bankers at the expense of bondholders bond holders but if rail aid presents as many obstacles as insurance men claim the probable solution of this problem will not be a federal whipping post for insurance companies but revision in the tha railroad reorganization statute treasury statutory limit of the U S public debt Is now which will bo be reached when and if congress ampro approves ves president roose belts new budget current debt about when congress convened last month it was rumored the adm administration ini would ask to raise the debt limit another to cong congressional al fiscal experts who questioned him about the U S financial outlook secretary of the treasury henry henri jr explained that it might be a good idea to raise the d debt abt limit said he 1 I would not be worried to see it the debt go to another or which is the present budget and we are going to have to ask congress it if you vote this money to increase the treas borrowing power mulling over this advice congressmen decided the official request which will come from the white house may precipitate another feud between spenders and conservatives |
